Introduction to Attic Greek

• Full exposure to the grammar and morphology that students will encounter in actual texts

• Self-contained instructional chapters, with challenging, carefully tailored exercises

• Progressively more complex chapters to build the student's knowledge of declensions, tenses, and constructions by alternating emphasis on morphology and syntax

• Readings based on actual texts and include unadapted passages from Xenophon, Lysias, Plato, Aristophanes, and Thucydides.

• Concise introduction to the history of the Greek language

• Composite list of verbs with principal parts, and an appendix of all paradigms

• Greek-English and English-Greek glossaries

Additional Resources:

•Robust online supplements for teaching and learning available at atticgreek.org

•Answer Key to exercises also available from UC Press (978-0-520-27574-4)

How To Use This Book

Introduction. The Ancient Greek Language and Attic Greek

Unit One. The Alphabet; Pronunciation

Unit Two. Accentuation

Unit Three. O-Declension Nouns; Prepositions I

Unit Four. A-Declension Nouns I; The Article

Unit Five. Present Active Indicative of O-Verbs

Unit Six. A-Declension Nouns II; Prepositions II

Unit Seven. Vowel-Declension Adjectives; Attribution and Predication

Unit Eight. Second Person Imperative; Prepositions III; Relative Pronoun and

Relative Clauses

Unit Nine. Present Infinitive; Two-Ending Adjectives

Unit Ten. Present of e?µ?; Some Uses of the Genitive and Dative

Unit Eleven. Present Middle/Passive Indicative

Unit Twelve. Adverbs; Conjunctions; Pronoun ??t?s; Pronominal Article; Prepositions IV

Unit Thirteen. Contract Verbs In -??; Demonstratives

Unit Fourteen. Consonant-Declension Nouns I

Unit Fifteen. Consonant-Declension Nouns II; Interrogative Pronoun

Unit Sixteen. Imperfect Indicative

Unit Seventeen. Indefinite ??s; Uses of the Accusative

Unit Eighteen. Future Active and Middle Indicative

Unit Nineteen. Aorist Active and Middle Indicative and Imperative

Unit Twenty. Tense and Aspect; Indirect Discourse

Unit Twenty-One. Consonant-Declension Nouns III; Personal Pronouns

Unit Twenty-Two. Consonant-Declension Adjectives

Unit Twenty-Three. Present System of ??-Verbs

Unit Twenty-Four. Athematic Aorists

Unit Twenty-Five. Adjectives With Variant Stems; Numerals; Reflexive and Reciprocal Pronouns; Result Constructions

Unit Twenty-Six. Participles: Formation and Declension

Unit Twenty-Seven. Uses of the Participle I

Unit Twenty-Eight. Uses of the Participle II; ??da

Unit Twenty-Nine. Aorist Passive and Future Passive

Unit Thirty. Contract Verbs In -?? and -??; Further Uses of the Genitive and Dative

Unit Thirty-One. Comparison of Adjectives and Adverbs

Unit Thirty-Two. The Subjunctive

Unit Thirty-Three. Formation of the Optative

Unit Thirty-Four. Uses of the Optative; Indirect Discourse With ?t?; Indirect Questions and Indirect Interrogative

Unit Thirty-Five. Conditional Constructions

Unit Thirty-Six. Indicative With ??; Correlatives; More Particles

Unit Thirty-Seven. Perfect System Active

Unit Thirty-Eight. Perfect System Middle/Passive; A-Contract Nouns

Unit Thirty-Nine. Third Person Imperatives; Object Clauses With Verbs of Effort; Athematic Perfects

Unit Forty. O-Contract Nouns; Verbal Adjectives In -??s and -???s; Subordinate

Clauses In Indirect Discourse; Meanings of Prepositional Prefixes

Unit Forty-One. Temporal Clauses With ??s and the Like; ????; Attraction

Unit Forty-Two. Contract Vowel-Declension Adjectives; Attic Declension; Assimilation of Mood

Appendix A. Table of Contractions

Appendix B. Principal Parts

Appendix C. Paradigms

Greek – English Glossary

English – Greek Glossary

Index